Maxine Carr's piercing dark eyes still give her away as one of the country’s most-hated women

Sian Hewitt

Carr served just 21 months after lying for double child killer Ian Huntley and is now living in a £200,000 home, the Daily Star Sunday can reveal.

And although transformed as part of her ­secret new identity, the 35-year-old’s piercing dark eyes still give her away as one of the country’s most-hated women.

Carr, who last year had her first child, was granted lifelong anonymity after she was ­convicted for giving Huntley a fake alibi when he murdered ten-year-old schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham in 2002.

Now she lives with her family in the South of England in a semi-detached bungalow. Last week she was seen offering drinks to the numerous builders who are currently putting an extension on her home.

Carr was given a three-and-a-half year jail ­sentence in 2003 after being found guilty of ­conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Holly and Jessica were on their way to buy sweets at a shop when they were lured into the home of Huntley and then killed.

Carr, a teaching assistant at the school the girls attended, told detectives Huntley was with her at the time of the killings, which delayed the ­police investigation. She was released from ­prison in May 2004 and given a complete new identity, becoming one of the few UK prisoners to be given a fresh start.

The others are child killer Mary Bell and James Bulger’s murderers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables.

But some details of her new life have been made public, including the fact she became a mother in October of last year.

The strict terms of her order mean her baby may never know Carr’s real name or how she protected Huntley.

He eventually admitted the girls had died in his house but claimed their deaths were an ­accident. He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 40 years.